Most families are well-versed in the power of the story to enchant and enliven young minds. We’ve all watched our kids’ eyes widen when the eagles save Bilbo, when Charlotte […]
The Other Great Parenting Books
This article first appeared on desiringGod.org. How the Best Stories Point Kids to Christ For the past two years, the realities of life in a pandemic have posed enormous challenges for […]
The Joy of Creating for Your Kids
From the first moments my kids strung together sentences that revealed their inner worlds, I’ve delighted in the whimsy and richness of their imaginations. First, characters from picture books would […]
The Characters That Shape Us
My kids’ rock-climbing instructor gaped, incredulous. Just weeks earlier, my daughter had screamed with terror halfway up the kids’ bouldering wall. Now she clung with a single hand to the […]
Redemption and Hope in Heidi
When my son first discovered Johanna Spyri’s Heidi nonchalantly tucked into our stack of daily reading books, he revolted. The book jacket, with the story’s namesake cartwheeling across a meadow […]